For far too many years, pain researchers and clinicians have relied on the concept of the morphine equivalent daily dosage (MEDD), or some variant of it, as a means of comparing the "relative ...

In a letter to the FDA, the American Society of Anesthesiologists has addressed public health concerns associated with the use of equianalgesic opioid conversion tables and has recommended a staged ...

The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2006;40(7):1327-1335. The classification of opioid analgesics may be based on 3 different schemes: (1) analog class (phenanthrene, phenylpiperidine, diphenylheptane), (2 ...

Interview with Dr. Eduardo Bruera on the treatment of pain during a severe shortage of parenteral opioids. 9m 33s Download The opioid-overdose epidemic now causes more than 30,000 deaths per year in ...

This article provides an overview of the current treatment of opioid-related conditions, including treatments provided by general practitioners and by specialists in substance-use disorders. The ...

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